33 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,June 23,2022 insidehalton.com PENTECOSTAL Tel: 416-892-8123 Fax: 1-866-281-5983 Bishop M. Brissett (Pastor) Email: mjbrisse@yahoo.ca Jesus is lOrd Oakville PenTecOsTal aPOsTOlic cenTre 454 Rebecca St (St. Paul's United Church) Oakville, ON Sunday Service 12:30 - 3PMWorship Service Sunday Evening: 7:30-9PM (Via Zoom Virtual Platform) *Covid-19 Safety Protocols Strictly followed.* NON-DENOMINATION SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST Tel: 289-830-6717 Pastor Mark Ewen (Senior Pastor) Pastor Carl Cunningham (Associate Pastor) Pastor Dean Lashington (Lead Elder) Twitter: @Oakvillesda Pastoral Services Available for Community In-person worship resumes July 9th, 2022. As of July 9th, 2022 - choose between In-person (1250 McCraney Street East) and virtual zoom services. Services may be accessed virtually and in person Virtual Worship Services on Zoom: Zoom ID : 867 6764 2331 PW: worship Saturdays 10 AM - 1:00 PM Wednesdays 7:00 PM Thursdays 6:30 PM Email: oakvillechurchsda@gmail.com OAkVIlle ADVenTIST COMPAny "We Press On" DIRECTORY If you'd like to advertise your place of worship in this feature please email Fiona frudder@starmetrolandmedia.com or call 289-293-0691 Worship Master's Grace ChurCh Are you looking for a place to worship the Lord Jesus Christ? We meet at the Meadowvale Community Center every Sunday at 10:00 am. Master's Grace Church, Auditorium 1 & 2 6655 Glen Erin Drive Mississauga, ON All COVID-19 safety protocols followed. Pastor Joseph Thomas Pastor Mini Thomas mastersgracechurch.com www.instagram.com/mgctoronto 416-951-0884 UNITED GLEN ABBEY UNITED CHURCH REV TED VANCE'S LAST SERVICE BEFORE SABBATICAL 1469 Nottinghill Gate, Oakville 905-825-5292 www.glenabbeyunitedchurch.com SUNDAY JUNE 19th WhAt DOES SABBAtICAL MEAN? It's your choice: WORSHIP LIVE AT 10AM! masks are now optional OR VIEW ON-LINE SERVICE ON YOUTUBE LATER Click on www.glenabbeyunitedchurch.com to help your Church survive the pandemic, please send e-transfers to: donations@glenabbeyunitedchurch.com thank you and God Bless you! You step on a Lego piece and yank your foot back. Your hand strays near a hot stove and you pull away. Pain is a dynamic event linking space, sensation and time with emotion, be- haviour, memory and hor- mone production through complex pathways in the body -- all integrated into a powerful experience. Most of the time, pain is temporary, a warning that something has caused or may imminently cause damage to our body. But in some cases, the pain persists even when the painful trigger is gone. Pain persisting beyond three months is defined as chronic pain. The pain sensing, processing and modulating pathways be- come distorted, and pain becomes an illness in its own right. All the science aside, having chronic pain is a significant burden. One in five Canadians lives with pain as a daily part of their lives. It carries a huge economic toll, con- suming 10 per cent of the health-care budget by itself. More than that is the suffering associated with chronic pain. The Canadi- an Pain Task Force Report states, "Chronic pain is largely invisible, and those affected often feel disbe- lieved and stigmatized." And they're right. There is no lab test or X-ray that shows chronic pain. All there is to go on is the pa- tient's story. And patient stories vary -- the same trigger, a bro- ken bone, in some will re- solve completely and in others will evolve into un- bearable pain. Some people will writhe and weep from pain while others will ap- pear calm and collected. Some people will be un- able to sleep, work or func- tion. It is an unpredictable illness. And although manage- ment exists -- medications, physical and cognitive therapies -- it doesn't work for everyone, and it doesn't work to the same degree in everyone. Living with chronic pain is a constant struggle to find an explanation for the pain, to navigate a skeptical health-care sys- tem, to feel valued and to rebuild one's identity and take back control over their future. Acknowledging and bearing witness to this struggle by refusing to abandon the person living with chronic pain thus be- comes one of the most com- passionate acts we can per- form. Nadia Alam is a Halton physician and past presi- dent of the Ontario Med- ical Association. Her col- umns also appear on www.drnadiaalam.com. She can be reached through her website. THE IMMEASURABLE TOLL OF CHRONIC PAIN OPINION ONE IN FIVE CANADIANS AFFLICTED WITH IT, WRITES DR. NADIA ALAM DR. NADIA ALAM Column Chronic pain can often be an unspoken burden for those suffering from it, writes Dr. Nadia Alam. Metro photo "All the science aside, having chronic pain is a significant burden."